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Bruno Jham and Beth Dunfee incorporated their 3-year-old pet English bulldog, Pancake, into their wedding reception on May 31
“She’s just such a central part of everything we do. I couldn’t imagine such a big ceremony without her being present,” the groom tells PEOPLE
Pancake was “super excited” for all of the attention from guests, and to join her owners for their first dance
A bride and groom’s beloved bulldog adorably stole the attention at their wedding.
Three years after Bruno Jham and Beth Dunfee started dating, they adopted their first and only pet together, an English bulldog named Pancake. When the couple decided to get married, they knew they couldn’t do so without their fur baby by their side. So, they hosted their wedding reception at their home following their courthouse ceremony in Chicago on May 31.
“Pancake is just such an important part of our lives,” Jham tells PEOPLE. “She’s just such a central part of everything we do. I couldn’t imagine such a big ceremony without her being present.”
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Bruno Jham and Beth Dunfee with their pet English bulldog, Pancake
The 3-year-old dog — who has nearly 125,000 followers on TikTok and 100,000 followers on Instagram — loved all the attention at the wedding. She wiggled in excitement and even peed “sprinkles of joy” as she greeted guests while wearing a custom white dress with a large silver bow.
“She was incredibly happy just to be around so many different people,” Jham says. “Everybody gives her attention, and she just loves being around people. She’s more of a human. She likes humans more than other dogs, I would say.”
Pancake was “super excited” to be around all the kids at the wedding.
“There was a little girl who was just following her around all night, wouldn’t leave her alone, so Pancake was really part of the party,” Jham says. “She was just doing her thing, hanging out with other guests, and she was just feeling very comfortable with the whole thing.”
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Although Pancake would eventually ditch her party dress, she wasn’t finished partying.
When Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love” began playing, she knew it was her time to shine, and joined her owners for a portion of their first dance. “Something old, something new and something with jowls,” Jham captioned footage of the dance, which was shared on social media.
“She was right next to us, so we were like, ‘Let’s have her be a part of it since she’s so special to us,’ ” Jham remembers.
When the music stopped, Pancake began barking. The bulldog, who is known as “The Baby Pancake” online, “wanted more.”
Afterward, Jham and Dunfee — who started dating in 2018 and got Pancake in 2021 — posed with Pancake as a caricaturist drew a portrait of them. They then took photos together in a photo booth.
Jham teases that Pancake has a “duo personality.”
“She’s super loving and sweet at one point, and then she gets super sassy and feisty at other times of the day,” he says. “We joke that she likes to attack us. She’s just [a] really fun and loving dog, and we are very happy to have her in our life.”
The wedding was “the highlight of her week.”
Spending time with so many people at once was admittedly “exhausting” for Pancake, who “slept for two days after the party.” However, Jham points out that’s not actually too different from her usual routine of “just sleeping all day.”
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